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The
IN the smoking-room of a
modest club in London, a by George Slocombe
exiled King sits in conference with his Ministera.
The Famous Foreign Correspondent
Hitler's dentand for the formation
When their Cabinet meeting of a government under Major Quisi- is over, King and Ministers ing was rejected. lunch together in the club din- After the first stunning moment of surprise and confusion, Norwegion ing-room- tall, lean man stir- resistance began in the forests and rounded by half-a-dozen others, villages of Northern and Contral who, from their robust and genial appearance, might be mistaken for master mariners.
He is King Haakon of Nor- way, and his Ministers are the Government of Free Norway.
go
Norway.
Allied troops were tapled.
Then came the unparalleled series uf diensters in the Low Countries and In France. The Allied troops were withdrawn to fight the more desper,
le battle of home.
Stubborn People
The King and his ministers trok Thirty-five years
this refure in England. The secanal place simple and molest man was call. of Norway's resistance began-the.
underground phase at home: the ed to the throne of the most naval phase abroad. peaceful State in Europe.
Hongkong Telegraph. Europe lived in a turmoil of re-
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THE RIVAL LOAVES SINCE this is an all-in war, from the dangers of which not even the brass-hats are ex- cluded, it is not surprising to learn that the white loaf in
Norway's fortunes are now, as in the days of the Vikings, curt teen For thirty-five years, while the waters. King Haakon still rules
over a nation aiteat. A great whal
fleet in the north, the Faroe in volutions, industrial revolts, Islands. wars and political crises, Han- A merchant fleet fourth among the fleets of the world. Destroyers kon stood at the helm of his ship and submarines. A small air force. of Vikings.
King And People
'Don't believe for a mainment that Norway Is entirely in the hands of the enemy. The northern part of the great peninsula is still unconquered, Leader of a nation of sailors, and, it may be, unconquerable. fishermen and peasants, he ruled sistance in those lee-covered moun-
There are stubborn centres of re-
"King Haakon still rules over a nation afloat." He is seen here addressing a mooting of Norwegian seamen in London.
"We have now got to attempt, with the other free nations, to find new formulas for International co-opera- tlen..
"One thing is certain. What we want is something quite different from the New Order which Germany is now trying to impose upon us.
Seafarers All
We are a seafaring nation, an old Allantie people, and our inclusion in a Continental Glóc would mean to us nothing but economic ruin.
"The characteristle Norse culture, built up in hundreds of years of effort, would disappear. Everything that is essentially Norwegian in our lives would be destroyed.”
"The kind of co-operation we need is one with the Western peoples.
"We have always been in close economle relations with the . nations on the Atlantic seaboard. They are hot only our natural allies, they are also the nations which have the zanie traditions of freedom and democracy and toleranco which የሮ ourselves cherish.
with "In allying ourselves
them лав only. during the war, we are building up a mighty alliance of free- dom-loving peoples to defent Hitler and Hitlerism, we are laying the Coundation of a permanent alliance of Atlantic States for the future.
"Such a political alliance would secure the national freedom and economic prosperity of Norway, pro- tect us against aggressors, and pre- vent recurring economic or political crises from halting social reform, and destroying the well-being of our
In The Alliance
over a vast, thinly populated, tains, those dark foresis.
If Hitler invades Sweden, as he A newcomer to the Norwegian people." largely barren country of forests probably will sooner or later, as soon Government, he has rapidly become and fjords, stretching from the as Sweden is more useful to him one of its most able spokesmen. 58th parallel of latitude to the largely in order to march into in- tween Norway and Britain, not only would like to see included in his pro- occupied than unoccupied, it will be He believes in a close alliance be-
Arctic Circle.
conquered Norway through the nar-
"The night for freedom and in-
I asked Mr Lie what countries he
posed Atlantle Alliance.
row northern neck of the peninsula. now but also after the war.
And also, perhaps, to ensure his in- dependence, the fight against the He replied: "First of all there is
British Empire, the greatest
wegian coast from the possibility of Gestape and the small Norwegian- the
born dictators serving the enemy, commonwealth 0. nations ever
Mr Lie told me, can succeed only formed.
If the free nations are in close unfor,
"Then there is the powerful and politically and economically.
"We believe in co-operation. We rich union of the United States. have co-operated in the past with the "There is France. Then Holland other Nordic peoples. And if the und Denmark and Belgium. And war interrupted this co-operation, it Spain and Portugal. will inevitably be restored in pence "And there is, Greece, which al
though not on the Atlantic seaboard, "The Northern States of Europe are is a maritime nation, and has proved She has realised, for the first time bound together by social conditions, her right to join an alliance of free- in nearly a century, that her fate Economic and cultural ties, a common dom-loving peoples by her fight for
history.
Most of his country's wealth lay on the sea, in its great mer- chant fleet, and in the sea, in the surprise and guerilla warfare from cod fisheries and herring schools the rear.
The war has radically changed of the Northern waters.
Norway's foreign policy. The sterile and dangerous neutrality upon which His people were a people who she based her hopes of permanent counted few rich men, and hard- pence has proved illusory. England has to be fortified.ly any poor, as we know poverty. Many have contended for years They lived hardly and simply, in that it stood badly in need of peace with their neighbours and fortification-though to be fair with, all the world. it must be added that others have praised it as the summit of dietetic excellence.
But it seems to have been easier to put Britain in a state of complete defence after Dunkirk than to fortify the white loaf. Great Britain stands four-square to all the Nazi blasts or miasmata that may blow, but the ordinary loaf, wearing the white flour of a blameless (or, 25 some say, blameful). life, nevertheless still stands defence- less, and the Food Ministry can- not promise that it will be made impregnable for a few months yet. Apparently magic vitamins cannot be conjured into exist-
cnce as rapidly as was expected or hoped.
In the meantime, the people
are promised a new version
of
Socialist Lead
cannot be linked alone with the for- tunes of continental Europe.
the
time.
independence," "Norway,
Sweden, Finland and Denmark must always live in a close This Norwegian statesman's kica of During the world war
Her fortunes le upon sca. community of ideas and interests, a an Atlantic Alliance has at least one | 1914-18 they maintained a They are linked, not with Germany, small federation of States in the merit:
but with Britain, as the Norwegian larger ferleration that Europe muy It has infuriated-1iltler, and-it-has- severe neutrality. During the King Sverre proclaimed in the thir become.
been angrily denounced by Quisling. "And I would like to include Ice- post-war years they worked in- teenth century.
land and the Faroe Islands in this defatigably for the peace
union.
"But a purely Nordic alliance, is can-and perhaps more successfully. Europe.
nut cnough. We must establish The Norwegian patriots here are political and economic co-operation already prosecuting that invasion in
the Scandinavian territories. with all the free nailons.
of
But they are also linked with all the maritime nations on the Atlantic seaboard.
Hence They believed ardently in the
the Importance and the novelty of the ideas now being advo- League of Nations. They be ented by the Norwegian acting For lieved in the permanence of eign Minister, Trygve Lie, their own neutrality.
"We have to rebuild, restore, re- construct. But also we have to Mr Lie is n Socialist, like most of establish security and prosperity in the members of Hanken's Cabinet. the new Europe.
"The League of Nations was an They even tried, at the Oslo He is a lawyer by profession, and has Conference, to erect neutrality for some years been legal adviser to atteint to fulfil this dream. But the into a permanent political in-
the Norwegian trade unions.
League falled. strument, by grouping together; all the neutrals of Europe into a kind of minor Nations.
League of
Neighbours
They were also one of the few States of northern Europe who did not regard the Soviet Union with hostility and growing disquiet.
cow,
They fear it because they know the power of idens. They know that ideas can invnde them, just as armies
The Idea is being spread diligently. And as it spreads, the dominion of the Nazis In the North of Europe will be more and more undermined. NEXT:
The Pistol at England's Heart.
WEAPONS OF TERROR
By
WE get strange news in these days, W. It seems that, in Brazil, a tribe of savage Indians hus attacked u missionary post and the authorities Miller Watson Early chroniclers admit the Indians
have, been forced to send troops to
But he
When the Bororos declare war on a
Old historlana tell how the early pioneers were often attacked by night and how the noise made by the Indians was fearful to be heard.
showed courage, but were appalled Russin had always been a good the rescue. neobour to Norway, even in tha It is almost incredible news-the say nothing of large horns which by their eruelty and terror tactles.
The modern Bororo hne been remotest Tsarist times-a better very iden that war can be carried served the purpose of a megaphone neighbour, in fact, than the Finns, on in anything but the moders lowed blood-curdling threats. No what. He no longer can attack his and through which the Indians bel- forced to modify his tactics some- which accounts for Norway's reluc mechanised, total way. But in read- of tance to take sides in the Russo-Fin- Ing of this incident have been re- doubt there was little Haw-Haw enemies in strength except in the that brown loaf which for long i continued good relations with Mos- Hitler invented screaming and in and, but it probably served its spreads terror by stealthy murder.
alsh war last winter, and for her minded of the fact that long before Sunvity about this kind of propa- most distant hinterland. has been fanatically favoured in
cendiary bombo the South Amerlenn purpose even better. Indians had practised total war and
Gongs made of shells, drums of rival tribe they terrorise them by
their enemics in the some quarters. A desperate
Norwegians showed sympathy with civil war seems to impend in the the Weimar Republic of Germany, terror in their enemies.
which were rattled ferociously, and jungle, and The Indians now causing the cylinders full of stones which could it is deposited in the enemy village bread world, for the new brown of starving German and Austrian tribe which has never accepted hands of the Bororo Indians.
welcomed to thdr homes the children trouble are of the Bororo tribe, a be rattied were all terror arms in the during, the night. The dally appear;
ance of another tortured and muti- is apparently to be a formidable familles, worked hard for reconcilia-
Inter victim spreads fear tion and appeasement.
"civilisation," and which still carries But they did not slop at noise, rapidly becomes panic. fellow bristling with dietetic
GDB relentless war against the They painted themselves with weird white man. I have seen some of the and" feorful designs. muniments, and ready to fly at
They wore weapons they used when they fought masks of horrife expression, and White men run grave, risks in his white rival on the slightest
against other tribes, and some of many of them had artificial "den- passing through the Bororo country. And then came the tragle disillu-thom served one purpose only-the turen" made from alllantor tusks, They will receive no mercy if they 'provocation or noné at all. How'sionment. At dawn on April 9, 1940, spreading of panic and terror.
by a combination of treachery, sur- bakers are to maintain peace in prise and intimidation never before! their establishments with all displayed even by the Nazis, the Gor- this belligerent material around ia hard to tell.
And after the last world war the employed clover means of inspiring bamboo and skin, bunches of cones Yaylaying, waving mutilated a corp"g
The staff of life, it is hoped, will not become a sword, nor citizens be so busy giving one another the lle concerning the respectiva merits or demerits of the rival loaves that they will forget to fight the real cause of all the trouble-the Germans.
.
Disillusion
mans invaded Norway.
The German and Austrian children of the early post-war years had grown up into fanatical Hitler- worshipping, Narl storm troopers and docile conscripts.
Speaking the Norwegian they had learned in the homes of their com- passionate hosts, they crept into Nor- wegian harbours by stealth in the holds of merch occupied Norway in the name of Hitler. the mask, and
Hankon, to his eternal credit, re- fused to surrender. His ministers followed him,
which.
which protruded from their mouths fall into the hands of these savagos, and must have made them as dan- who know no piły. gorous looking AS sabre - toothed In spite of everything :ona har, to A device which intrigued me was timers,
Arimire the courage of these Indians. when a perforated gourd which,
When the Bororos attacked another Some years ago punitive force was; swung round in the air at the end tribe they did the job in a "total" sent to avenge the murder of some: of a rope, gave out a walling notéė manner. All the old meh, and oven Government surveyors. The Indians
of hair-raising pitch. This wonpon the women accompanied the warriors were surrounded, but faced the of terror might almost be the pro- and helped to make a noise. If the rifes and the machine-guns of totype of some of Hitler's weapons. attack was made at night they shot troops with absolute fearlessers.
Another noise-producer was made arrows carrying tufts of from two discs of hardwood which, timber to set alight their enemies every Indian fought to the end.
blazing were wiped out completely, for;
They when twisted against each other, hats. If the vilinge was well do- The Nazis have adapted the terror produced a nerve-racking shriek, A "ended and the attack was made by methods of warfare so long prac similar devies was made from one day the warriors would XIII prisonera
tised by thero
South American; bamboo pushed Inalds another of in view of the villancico ingira improved on old methods. But 1 They have modernized and sightly larger diameter. When these terror before they attacked. When were twisted was made a most piercing sound the attack was made it was accom doubt very much if the Nazis will pented by such a babel of nobe, that show the courage to fight", to the Anart from these there was the defenders must have felt bitter end, which has been often variety of trumpets and whistles, to timidated by It.
shown by the Bororo savages.